Improvement in setting gas-retorts



APatented Aug. 5,` 1862.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

ADAM WEBER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVVEMENTVIN SETTING lGAS-RETORTS.

Speciication forming part of Letters Patent No. 36,119-, dated August 5, 1862.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADAM WEBER, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented-a new and useful Improvement in Gas-Retort Benches; and I hereby declare that the 'following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ofreference marked. thereon.

Figure I represents a cross-section. FigtII hows a longitudinal section at the line V W,

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Similar letters represent similar parts.

The nature of my invention consists in the arrangement of suitable girders supported by cross-ties resting on an arch or arches built over the fire-place in such a manner that each retort shall be supported by itself without resting or bearing upon any other retort, whereby the clay retorts are less liable to break, and each retort may be taken out and replaced without disturbing any other retort.

In the accompanying drawings, A A represent clay retorts made in the usual manner. B is the fireplace, over which, in several places, arches O C are built. Upon these arches crossties D D are placed, carrying upright supports or stands H. On the top of these stands H girders K K are placed, Whose eXtreme ends rest on suitable proj ection's,F,made on the side walls of the oven. lOn the top of these girders K, and above the supports H, similar supports, M,y are placed, upon which girders L are fastened. On these girders K and L clay'plates or tiles N N are placed, extending from one Agirder to the other, fastened to the same and supported independent of each other, each retort resting upon separate gir-ders, and which latter are supported by arches built over the fire-place.

By the arrangement of arches over the lireplace to take the weight and support the retorts, I am able to increase the dre-place to any desired extent. v

The two lower retorts, A', rest upon suitable brick-work upon plates or tiles E, which said plates or tiles E protect the bottom of theseretorts and form the top of the return-fines P. The re and heat pass out of the fire-place B between the arches G, act upon the retorts,

and pass through openings Q downward into the return -nes P, and from there into the chimney J. To protect the lower retorts, A', at their sides next the lire from the extreme heat, plates G, corresponding in form to the shape of the retorts, are arranged and tted against those parts most exposed.

The usual plan of setting clay retorts has v been to make the lower retorts support the upper retorts, by which arrangement the whole oven must be broken up and all retorts taken out whenever only one of the lower retorts requires to be replaced, whileby my improved ADAM WEBER.

Witnesses:

HENRY E. ROEDEE, CHE. S. BENNETT. 

